“Some try to hand me money, they don’t understand. I’m not broke, I’m just a broken-hearted man.” – The Script An odd thing, love. Having studied psychology and anatomy, I understand the mechanics of love. I know about the brain’s…
“Some try to hand me money, they don’t understand. I’m not broke, I’m just a broken-hearted man.” – The Script An odd thing, love. Having studied psychology and anatomy, I understand the mechanics of love. I know about the brain’s…
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where you’ll go.…
Not having the privilege of being a full-time writer, I am struck by the number of times I see (joking or serious) references to self-isolation. Roughly, they equate to “leave me alone, because I’m writer, and I’m creating.” I imagine…
This has been, in many ways, an extraordinarily emotional day. For at least an hour, I did not think I would survive it. However, God willing, I shall. Still, it made me realize I rarely discuss why I write. It…
“On with the dance! let joy be unconfin’d; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.” – Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) “On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there’s any dance to dance…
I post this every year, and I will, I suppose, until I die, or begin to believe the dream has been fulfilled. I remain hopeful. Indeed, I am encouraged that it will happen in my daughter’s lifetime, if not mine.…
I am convinced there are only 2 kinds of cabbie. There’s the unfriendly, “I’m driving you, but I wish you’d die” type. Then there’s the chatty, mouth like a clatterbell type. Fortunately, the former seem to gravitate to the night…
So, I may walk a bit too fast. I just came back from the 2011 American Heart Association’s Heartwalk, and realized I probably violated one of the lessons I’ve learned about life from hiking. Namely, that sometimes it pays not…